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Baseline Ventures

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Baseline Ventures is a seed-stage capital firm founded by Steve Anderson in late 2006. Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas into companies.

Since its inception, Baseline is proud to have backed over 60 founding teams in promising software and web companies including Rupture (acquired by EA), Mixer Labs (acquired by Twitter), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), Versley (acquired by Cisco), Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google), Sendori (acquired by Ask.com), Parakey (acquired by Facebook), Haute Secure (acquired by Truste), Twitter and Trialpay.

Recent Milestones

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  Baseline Ventures invested in Pickwick & Weller. (4/3/13)
  Posted 4/5/13 at 11:06pm via finsmes.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in TastemakerX. (3/7/13)
  Posted 3/7/13 at 5:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Stitch Fix. (2/28/13)
  Posted 2/28/13 at 7:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Gild. (2/27/13)
  Posted 2/27/13 at 6:51pm via finsmes.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Rivet & Sway. (2/1/13)
  Posted 2/1/13 at 6:50pm via allthingsd.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in BillFloat. (1/17/13)
  Posted 1/17/13 at 8:21pm via prnewswire.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Clarity. (12/5/12)
  Posted 12/5/12 at 5:27am via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Picturelife. (11/2/12)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 11:45am via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in ObjectLabs. (10/1/12)
  Posted 12/11/12 at 11:38am via gigaom.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in nWay. (10/1/12)
  Posted 2/13/13 at 7:24pm via wsj.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Seesaw. (9/21/12)
  Posted 11/13/12 at 4:45am via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in SoFi. (9/12/12)
  Posted 9/12/12 at 12:23pm via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Social Finance. (9/11/12)
  Posted 9/11/12 at 7:20pm via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Piqora. (7/31/12)
  Posted 7/31/12 at 7:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in TaskRabbit. (7/23/12)
  Posted 7/23/12 at 5:08am via techcrunch.com
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  Baseline Ventures invested in Pocket. (7/19/12)
  Posted 7/19/12 at 4:54am via techcrunch.com

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1. Pickwick & Weller Raises Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. TastemakerX Raises Another $1.25M To Position Itself As “Fantasy League” For Bands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Gild Raises $8M Series A Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. Warby Parker Competitor Rivet & Sway Raises $2 Million More (allthingsd.com) [edit]
6. BillFloat Secures $21 Million in Funding For Innovative Credit Delivery Platform (prnewswire.com) [edit]
7. Clarity Raises $1.6M Seed Round From Baseline, Mark Cuban And More To Build Its Mentor Advice Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. MongoLab explains why everyone loves MongoDB (and raises $5M) (gigaom.com) [edit]
10. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/07/the-daily-startup-investors-back-nway-and-its-gaming-rockstars/ (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
11. CoTweet Founders Reunite, Raise Seed Round For Their New Company “Seesaw” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Social Finance Lands $77M From Baseline, Renren To Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Social Finance Lands $77M From Baseline, Renren To Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Pinterest Effect: Pinfluencer Raises $1.4 Million For Its Pinterest Analytics Platform Before Today’s Public Debut (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. TaskRabbit Gets $13M From Founders Fund And Others To “Revolutionize The World’s Labor Force” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Pocket Raises $5M Series B; Plans To Bring Its ‘Save For Later’ App To More Devices And Platforms (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. General Catalyst And Andreessen Horowitz Parlay $4 Million On X-Googler Startup Parlay Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Threadflip Raises $6.5M From Shasta, Chris Sacca And Others, Launches Mobile App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Threadflip Gets $1.6M From Baseline, First Round, Dave Morin And Others To Virtualize The Clothing Swap (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Crashlytics, A Startup For Crash Reporting on Mobile Apps, Raises $5M From Flybridge, Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Sequoia Set to Lead $500M Valuation Round for Instagram (allthingsd.com) [edit]
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25. TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Mango Health: A Mobile App For Rewarding People Who Stay On Track With Prescription Drugs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Adara Media Secures $12.4M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
28. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Cloud Application Services Company Iron.io Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round From Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. Uservoice Hears $1M (silicontap.com) [edit]
31. Crashlytics, A Crash-Reporting Solution For Mobile Developers, Raises $1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. GoInstant Launches With $1.7M For Browser-Sharing Technology (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
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34. Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, As Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video) (allthingsd.com) [edit]
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38. TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures, First Round And Others To Help People Get Stuff Done (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games (prweb.com) [edit]
41. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Instagram Raises $7M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches ‘Respond’ Button (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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47. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. TRUSTe Receives $12 Million in Series B Funding (truste.com) [edit]
49. Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups (online.wsj.com) [edit]
50. Former Microsoft Execs Lead $10 Million Round In Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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54. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
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57. BOOKFRESH SECURES $500K IN ADDITIONAL SEED FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
58. View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands (mashable.com) [edit]
59. Yardbarker scores $634K to connect pro athletes with fans (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
60. UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems (venturebeat.com) [edit]
61. Expensify raises $1M for online expense reporting (venturebeat.com) [edit]
62. Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
63. SAI (businessinsider.com) [edit]
64. Haute Secure Inc Obtains $1,600,000 Series A Funding Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
65. Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. Mechanical Zoo Gets $6 Million To Build Aardvark Social Search Product (techcrunch.com) [edit]
67. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
68. More funding for document collaboration: DocVerse raises $1.3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
69. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
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71. Yardbarker Raises $6 Million Second Round For Sports Community And Ad Network (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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81. FraudWall raises $1.01 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
82. TrialPay Backed By Investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai For Payment Platform (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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